[Footnote 145: There are several editions of this work in circulation. The first (published in 1783) was in folio volumes, but the best known edition is in a large number of octavo volumes published in 1818 and following years. The eclipse lists will be found in the 1st volumes of the first and second series respectively. The French astronomer, Pingré, is responsible for them.] [Footnote 146: Published at Bononia (Bologna) in 1653.] [Footnote 147: _Omnia Opera_, vol. ii. pp. 311-16. Edited by Ch. Frisch. 8 vols. 8vo. Frankofurti-a-M., 1857-60.] [Footnote 148: A collected edition of Tycho Brahe’s works, edited by “Lucius Barettus,” was published at Augustæ Vindilicorum (Augsburg) in 1666. Lucius Barettus is an anagram for the real name Albertus Curtius.] [Footnote 149: J. L. E. Dreyer, _Tycho Brahe: a Picture of Scientific Life and Work in the Sixteenth Century_.] [Footnote 150: _Opus Chronologicum._ Francofurti ad Mœnum, 1650.] [Footnote 151: _Astronomica_, vol. iv. Lugduni, 1657.] [Footnote 152: _Inleiding tot de Algemeene Geographie._ Amsterdam, 1740.] [Footnote 153: _Astronomy Explained upon Sir Isaac Newton’s Principles._ 2nd ed. 4to, pp. 167-79. London, 1757.] [Footnote 154: _Astronomy_, p. 178.] [Footnote 155: _Historical and Future Eclipses._ 2nd Ed., 1896.] [Footnote 156: _Total Eclipses of the Sun._ Boston, U.S., 1894.] [Footnote 157: _Astronomical Journal_, vol. x. pp. 25, 185; vol. xi. pp. 5, 28, 57; vol. xii. p. 121; vol. xiii. p. 73; vol. xv. p. 73; vol. xvi. pp. 89, 175.] [Footnote 158: J. Ferguson. _Op. cit._; W. D. Snooke, _Brief Astronomical Tables for the Expeditious Calculation of Eclipses_, 8vo. Lond. 1852.] CHAPTER XVIII. STRANGE ECLIPSE CUSTOMS. I had intended heading this chapter “Eclipse Customs amongst Barbarous Nations,” but in these days it is dangerous to talk of barbarians or to speak one’s mind on points of social etiquette so I have thought it well to tone down the original title, otherwise I should have the partisans of the “Heathen Chinee” holding me up to scorn as a reviler of the brethren. Did space permit a very interesting record might be furnished of eclipse customs in foreign parts. An eclipse happened during Lord Macartney’s embassy to China[160] which kept the Emperor and his Mandarins for a whole day devoutly praying the gods that the Moon might not be eaten up by the great dragon which was hovering about her. The next day a pantomime was performed, exhibiting the battle of the dragon and the Moon, and in which two or three hundred priests, bearing lanterns at the end of long sticks, dancing and capering about, sometimes over the plain, and then over chairs and tables, bore no mean part.